Annotate a Comic Strip in Google Slides

Building on the idea of creating a whiteboard in google slides, today’s tip describes how to make a comic strip the background for a google slide. Instructors can then have students annotate their own copy of the comic strip by adding dialogue and/or narration.

1. Using a custom comic strip creator (like this one, for example), create your own three panel comic strip. Using a screen shot, save an image of the comic strip as a .PNG file. The following was created for this demonstration.

2. Create a google slides presentation.

3. Click “Background”.

4. Click “Choose Image”. Once image is selected, click “Done”.

The image is now the background of the slide, which is not affected in any way by editing the slide.

5. Insert text boxes where dialogue and or narration are desired.

Here is the first of four text boxes for this slide:

Share the "whiteboard" with your students by having them make a copy of the file (See this tip).

Now each student or group of students will be able to provide their own text in the boxes.